Workers Press no. 193

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

What we think Jack Jones sounds the retreat Minister, enders to defy the the unions Then trade to challenge torate... short- Within dae reformit unic reformist as predictable gesture This General Workers Union. According studiously avoide da London, 1 any men Heatuss union re- ties: to placate Tory scep preven chat .. being That one lone 19%, Tele, graph, June 21 Tory employers. policy for testil peace? Whater Know, the essa tients and oin Beeral Workers Port a sas welf tin the see Only • out in Yarmuch ownership of the dockets There dis hate date indoor ationalize the docksnot to We on a theasa she end or he wage rise.

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workers press

NUMBER 193 • TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1970

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

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CEMENT STRIKE

Prepare to Polish strike- fight the breaking confirmed Tory govt POLISH cement is being brought into N Ireland for shipment to the Irish Republic, where 750 employees of Cement Ltd are in the 21st week of their strike for higher wages and better conditions. Contrmation of this stalinist Strikebreaking came Saturday from leading bellast trade unionist, Joe Belfast chairman of the Irish Transport McBrennan, THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the Socialist and General Workers' Union.

Statement by Labour League salutes all those millions of A delass harbout that told Workers Press at

BY JOHN SPENCER

the Central workers, professional people, housewives, pen- 'Polish sioners and students who voted Labour on June trying to stop the import of Committee of cent of the pickets- off it in 18 despite the treacherous betrayals of Wilson We ha of the Peoples the SL L al Trans Workers' Fec re arrested. Theyza and the right-wing leaders over the last six years.

in nearby Downpatric The Central Committee denounces in *Strike committee members the strongest possible terms the con- Union chief 'warns Tories but tinuous retreat of these leaders before the offensive of the international bankers Cement worrogat a meeting Polish and their British counterparts, as well Climb-down in as their criminal failure to elaborate any viable socialist policy and plan to defeat the Tories in 1970. engineering We state as categorically as we can that the defeat of une 18, engineered by Wilson and Jenkins, was the logical near? culmination of their capitalist policies, which began with Callaghan's budgets and the July 20. 1966 measures, tinued with the betrayal of Rhodesia ARE THE trade union leaders already to Smith, S Vietnam to Nixon anu laying down lines for a retreat before Ulster to Clark, and concluded with une lories! and the une aboruve vy nite raper This is the question millions of workers- reactivation of Part 2 of the Prices and particularly sat Edward Heats election voy.

incomes Act ana tne visit or vylison VICTOR FEAT has alerte care 13465 UZ the, given

BLES

This is so despicab so chint Guerrilla pressure on dockers to double her vi being loaded for Ireland.en Cambodia British origin • Thirmational assistance growing in danger it t LIBERATION forces were reported to be re- anyon basential not only chat scabbing cannot be grouping in great strength yesterday South West of Phnom Penh for a new assault on the strategic town of Kompong Speu. Rainst the key towns are also surrounded by but that wo other ments, guerrilla units-Kompong Cham to the North East and Kompong Thom to the South.

and defeated nd ballot Reap, siegyest The tourist centre of Sien announces an important re while even furthe Fascist Minister tours Poland Thai breally agree the

PUBLIC

noving Cambodia

MEETING

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

and Phnom betwee Penh "The working class Thursda can defeat the Tory Spanish hacele capital reame trems the government' Baldwin did it-so wil est of the country politician

CAXTON HALL

(near St James's Park tube)

DESPERATE

Pand ar the weekend came

T&GWU,

LONDON

unsolicited base an opport h Cambodia to Monday, June 29, 8p.m. communists tholy See heat tent of murai son sant and destr red area Nixon's found himself ve mutual agreemen and, duenvitation to conditior agemenpressure o shrike nai-s not the Tories is Rankrendle ery not scan Workers Pres sandr out on okay an

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DOCKERS CHALLENGE

TO THE TORIES

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

PORTWORKERS all over Britain yesterday threw down the gauntlet to the incoming Tory government and, in particular, Employ- ment and Productivity Minister Robert Carr -with a 24-hour token strike.

Merseyside's 10,500 dockers brought the port to a standstill, demanding: * Full nationalization of all 100-per- ports under yorkers' control. Ulster An end to the use of non-registered labour on container work. court No further erosion of the national docks register fill the and recruitment dismisses number of jobs lost Targe through wastage the

UVCT

last few years. Devlin Southampton, Great Yar- Manchester and mouth, London's Royal, West Indian appeal and Millwall groups of docks were also halted. And more trouble for the BERNADETTE DEVLIN'S ap- Tories is on the way. six-month peal against Delegates representing dismissed prison sentence 53,000 Transport and Gen- was N vesterday by the Ireland eral Workers' Union dockers Court of Appeal. in from all ports meet London today to discuss the The Mid-Ulster MP, who emplovers' refusal both was appealing against their claim for a €20 mini- conviction and sentence, and mum wage an 81-per- found guilty by London- from the court in December cent rise present derry £ll Is 8d basic. three counts of incitement to Many delegates will of riotous hehaviour and one behaving riotously during Bog- favour strike action over the claim. side street fighting last August. Phase two Her case has been adjourned until Friday that her counsel, Sir Dingle Foot, can Lastly, will how ex- the judgement. study foundry foreman Carr deal He notice that with the small but influen- nas suven he will apply for leave to tial "Blue' National Amal- take her appeal to the House gamated Stevedores' and of Lords. Dockers' refusal accept to Miss Devlin, who was re- the London port employers' turned to Westminster last Two of the terme for Phase increased Thursday with an Devlin "modernization ' will face prison if majority, scheme? this fails. Implementation of the London which has deal, been accepted by the 4,500 laid T&GWU, was scheduled for 29. This is june Parliament opens - with off at Lucas Queen's Speech announce- ment ports nationalization is to be scrapped - - and 4,500 Joseph

MORE

than when any strike action over Lucas car components workers the national claim most have been laid off indefinitely likely to begin. because of a pay strike at the Birmingham company's plas- tics and die-casting plants.

Red pot: The 650 strikers walked out for a second time last Thurs- day over their claim for a £9- suspended a-week pay increase. They had returned to work at the beginning of last week sentence stoppage, but after a ten-day struck when again the man- agement offered them an aver- age €2 5s increase.

MISS

ANGELA

WEIGHT,

who threw a tin of red paint at Mr Heath on Saturday, was tours Poland given a suspended sentence of three months' imprisonment at Bow Street, London, yester- day. Just as the Polish leader- Miss Weight, 26, a picture ship had no hesitation publishing researcher for helping break the firm, pleaded guilty to four to Asturian miners' strike by charges, including possessing sending heavy shipments of an offensive weapon-the tin of paint. coal, and then cynically sent She was given a conditional 'experts' to help reorganize years for the work in the pits, neither discharge for two Pope nor the Spanish wilful damage costing the causing fascists have any objection £32 9s 6d to a shirt, socks and to Polish support for the suit belonging to Heath's per- Soviet invasion of Czecho- sonal detective and £2 14s to slovakia. Princes Fascist ministers, of the Church and Stalinist

PUBLIC MEETING

bureaucrats united in are

WINSFORD

their fear and hatred of the working class. Cheshire Only on this basis can a "The significance of Lenin' fascist politician be allowed HEAL High P.m. Tuesday Thal, 7:30 to pose as the representative juildhall of Spanish people in the (SLL national Speaker: such an obscene charade. secretaryl.

Whet we think Jack Jones sounds the retreat the next Tory government. shackling We policy aid it ward torate • Not lived.) Within day of tre readers were idea anten out of hi way to placate Tory tics: Long berore the 1o What General Workers Union the vital sec and motor car industry. Far from being frightened by emir eers ral capital. that te doubt in mined nowa conomic questions but by the represented Catalize the dock or i essed at the end

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THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 193•

TUESDAY, JUNE 2S, 19r0

CEMENT STRIKE

POLISH cement is being brought into N Ireland for shipment to the Irish Republic, where 750 employees of Cement Ltd are in the 21st week better of their strike for higher wages and conditions. Contrmation of this stalinist strikebreaking came on saturday from leading Bellast trade unionist, joe THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the Socialist Mckrennan, Bellast chairman of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.

Statement by Labour League salutes all those millions of Press at

BY JOHN SPENCER

the Central workers, professional people, housewives, pen- sioners and students who voted Labour on June see to stop ches most of Committee of over 18 despite the treacherous betrayals of Wilson Bast fev We has the SLL International and the right-wing leaders over the last six years.

are to pet them to stop nearby Downpatrick The Central Committee denounces in the strongest possible terms the con- that some Union chief 'warns' Tories but tinuous retreat of these leaders betore not the e week the offensive of the international bankers Cement workers at a meetin; IntO in Drogheda Constabulary attacked pickets and their British counterparts, as well as their criminal failure to elaborate any viable socialist policy and plan to defeat the Tories in 1970. We state as categorically as we can that the defeat of June 18, engineered ov vyson and enkins. was une lorica culmination of their capitalist policies, which began with Callaghan's budgets and the July 20, 1966 measures, con- tinuea witn cne betrayal or anodesia ARE THE trade union leaders already to Smith, S Vietnam to Nixon Javine down unes lor a reueal Delure vister to cark. and concludeo witn Tories? White Paper and the the abortive reactivation or art or toe rices ana Incomes Act and the visit of Wilson to washington. 3465 UZ response o solely attitude thing for leaders came po striker dockers to doube their vigil bece loaded for rela dement the working British origin British origin Setsdon LIBERATION forces were reported to be rabbing cannot be dren back grouping in great strength yesterday South West of Phnom Penh for a new assault on the strategic work the town of Kompong Speu. scab Iwo other key towns are also surrounded by guerrilla units-Kompong Cham to the North East and prelude policy would be th Kompong Thom to the South.

frontie reportedly

FERNANDEZ

MEETING

FOREIAN CORRESPONDENT

WORKERS

"The working class on he or pontial oblechion vas can defeat the Tory the capital International rest of the country. - US regime from th government' Fair on saturda Baldwin

CAXTON HALL

poroval or lae rol

DESPERATE

visite (near St James's Park tube) rumbling blockas bee res unsolicited stateme Poland.

LONDON

on Not regime coot hal the nd of the weekend cal 'Open house' begging the Tories to cede So Polish Stalinism keep: Monday, June 29, 8p.m. Socialist Labourely efusal to launch any kin outing and failing those of industri against national secretary strike nais of the Tories is on is for airman: M. Ban wary of Scan- reade in Counson

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So far, this has been a great month. Now let us get ready for a fighting finish.

Keep the donations rolling in to : Workers Press Appeal Fund, 186A Clapham High Street, London, SW4.

DOCKERS CHALLENGE

TO THE TORIES

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

PORTWORKERS all over Britain yesterday threw down the gauntlet to the incoming Tory government-and, in particular, Employ- ment and Productivity Minister Robert Carr —with a 24-hour token strike.

Merseyside's 10,500 dockers brought the port to a standstill, demanding: * Full nationalization of all ports under 100-per- • ent vorkers control. Ulster • An end to the use of non-registered labour container work. court • No further erosion of the national docks register and recruitment to fill the dismisses large number of jobs lost through wastage over the last few years. Devlin Southampton, ( Great Yar- Manchester and mouth. appeal London's Royal, West Indian and Millwall groups of docks were also halted. And more trouble for the BERNADETTE DEVLIN'S ap- Tories is on the way. peal six-month Delegates representing against prison sentence was dismissed 53,000 Transport and Gen- N yesterday by the Ireland eral Workers' Union dockers Court of Appeal. from all in ports meet London today to discuss the The Mid-Ulster MP, who employers' refusal to appealing both meet was against their claim for a f20 mini- conviction and sentence, found wage and an 81-per- guilty by London- from the present December cent rise derry court in on £ll Is 8d basic. three counts of incitement to Many delegates will riotous behaviour and one of behaving riotously during Bog- favour strike action over the side fighting last claim. street August. Her case has been adjourned Phase two that her until Friday SO counsel, Sir Dingle Foot, can Lastly, how will ex- study the judgement. foundry foreman Carr deal He has notice that given with the small but influen- he will apply for leave to tial 'Blue' National Amal- take her appeal to the House gamated Stevedores' and of Lords. Dockers' refusal to accept Miss Devlin, who was the London port employers' Westminster last turned to terms for Phase Two of the Thursday with an increased " modernization ' Devlin if majority, will face prison scheme? this fails. Implementation of the London deal, which has been accepted by the 4,500 laid

T&GWU.

was scheduled for 29. June This is when Parliament opens - with off at Lucas Speech Queen's announce- ment ports nationalization

MORE

4,500 Joseph is to be scrapped - and than when any strike action over Lucas car components workers national the claim is most have been laid off indefinitely likely to begin. because of a pay strike at the Birmingham company's plas- and die-casting plants. tics Red pot: The 650 strikers walked out for a second time last Thurs- day over their claim for a £9- suspended a-week pay increase. They had returned to work at the beginning of last week sentence after a ten-day stoppage, but struck again when the man- agement offered them an aver-

WEIGHT,

MISS

ANGELA

£2 5s increase. age who threw a tin of red paint at Mr Heath on Saturday, was tours Poland given a suspended sentence of months' three imprisonment at Bow Street, London, yester- day. Just as the Polish leader- Miss Weight, 26, a picture ship publishing had no hesitation in researcher for helping to break the firm, pleaded guilty to four strike by including Asturian miners' charges, possessing sending heavy shipments of offensive weapon-the tin an coal, and then cynically sent of paint. 'experts' to help reorganize She was given a conditional the Worke ne pies spanish neither discharge for for two years Pope nor wilful damage costing causing fascists have any objection €32 9s 6d to a shirt, socks and to Polish support for the suit belonging to Heath's per- Czecho- Soviet invasion of sonal detective and £2 14s to slovakia. a car. Princes Fascist ministers, of the Church and Stalinist

PUBLIC MEETING

bureaucrats are united in

WINSFORD

their fear and hatred of the working class. Cheshire Only on this basis can a "The significance of Lenin' fascist politician be allowed to pose as the representative Tuesday, June 23, 7.30 p.m. The Guildhall, of Spanish the people in Speaker: (SLL national such an obscene charade. secretary).

PAGE TWO

Some pages from the history of the British working class

BY PETER JEFFRIES

THE RECOGNITION of the important social grada- tions emerging in the ranks of the working class dur- ing the period of capitalist expansion after 1850 the subject of our last study—was true not only of the most astute employers, but of a number of liberal writers and intellectuals like Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill. Arnold, Matthew appointed HM Inspector of Schools in 1851—a post which he held until 1886- was acutely aware of the dangers which continued to face the middle class in this period. • His great fear was the anarchy which could at any time erupt from that. 'Vast portion of the work- and half ung cass walch. raw long lain half. developed, has hidden amidst its poverty and now issuing Soots hiding place to aunt squalor, angusanans heaven vort privilece of done as me axes and is beginning to perplex us itkes where it likes, bawl- meeting breaking what likes, wnat it likes.' was Tols residium' which Arnold and his fellow members of the mid- intellectual ictorian so feared, after meul pulled behind them middle-cass rerormers In Cae great Hyde Park Gemonstra for the Reform Aot, passed in 1867, , which gave the town worker the vote. But if he was frightened a Tne prospect of violence and anarcov rom los sector the population, Arnold saw elements the working His "Culture and Anarchy', 1867, written lal kely cerns the relationsnio derween the three great classes the Barbarians (the Philistines arise maddle and the ropulace (me worris cass).

He was always clear that a limited mentady democracy held via.

extension Act

TOP LAYERS

Callull populace should But if the get out of hand. AnOla Was reW cancers lot onlyalt Speaking of the top layers quite prepared to use the mos perty. As he pointed out to a of the working class, Arnold methods to repress, of workers writes: Warning the Liberals the height of the struggle fo it ls oovious, l sdy the this of work dangers of that part where the people power of the working Class as or is in a fair counties 1ng Class 15, a means ordered be vyl are allowed way To De. one In spiriL wIth and Tories strength are …ne decared the industrial middle class.

his father, Dr Thomas they are not obliged to use it, notorious that our middle- Arnold: and in the • House : of Commons class have long reassured his Liberal colleagues old forward to for roti dealithe the Romar way of with when the working always the proposals: with Class shall and "They may be able to decide and them and then nearly carry forward great from whether a Whig or Tory shal.

their nIne fedaels go in a great body to larpelan KocK.. be elected chev may De meetings, and, "This opinion', went on this masters of so small a situation great 'liberal' and 'progressive', bring as that.' enable them to short, we can never about men mmuenum.. our Liberal friends may think Ihat part of it again, which

FABIANISM

so much occupies a little rioting, and what thei the atten- popular demonstrations tion of the Philanthropists at call Arnold and But the which gives useful sometimes and to 1I Mill, party figures other literary were interests the its energies to organising interests of the valuable oi itself, Imoor lant through trades unions they have these tendencies. it was only •.. Ens nvery ana interesune operauvis at later stage, with in hand.' part must also, according of Fabianism, that emergence our definition, go with the John stuart Mill, the latel of intellectuals sough Philistines.' of English liberalism, also saw deliberately and consciously educatio key to the As the same writer explains to spread the ideas of reform he annels like Will liar consider- ism amongst the working clas Indeed he spent a allusine. lor passion

TOI

with the collaboration and able making prevail, for carrying his assistance of the • trade union from end of society impressing upon тоге bureaucracy and labour other, the best knowledge, short-sighted middle-class impontant this of our time" friends that the 'stupid best ideas 171010 activities of would the an aim was to be rea- gnorant mass stare were lized through langerous if thes were denied slalt cuutaliol members of the Liberal Party.

access to cuucallon. Thomas Brassey, Lord groups of employers, such Likewise Mill's advocacv of Samuel Morley and Elcho, Mundella Samuel Mor- extention of the suffrage.

Mundella were the vote of workers towns this group examples them employers advocates order to draw the went ou InTo dIsU their way, as an act of policy, public life and education for the machinery of compuisory encourage trade unionism of working many render them safe. cassanel the support of its and win were invariably large I would like information about Lucy emniovers were dominant market relatively sheltered from com.

petition from their rivals Even at the time of the 1869 Trade Roval Commission UnlOT ele ments in the capitalist clas. saw the virtues of accepting Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL trade the of

LEAGUE,

conservative

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

layers workers, al Icast.

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

"True statesmanship, Times declared The soon the publication of the Name alter "will seek neither Report. their augment nor to reduce Address influence, but, accepting it as a fact, will give it free scope for legitimate development. A Broadsheet acclaiming the passing of the 1867 Reform Bill —which gave workers in towns the vote. By 1875 the unions had been given legal protection, a protection which was not to be seriously challenged until the end of the century. Typical of this group • was Mundella, the powerful Not- tinghamshire hosiery manu- lacturer, later Liberal MP for Sheffield and President of the Board of Trade. In the 1860s Mundella was prominent in the establish- • ment of Conciliation and Arbi- tration Boards for the hosiery industry which were designed to avoid strikes and conflict, to Boards which were be highly praised in the 1869 Report of the Royal Commis- sion on Trade Unions.

POSITIVISTS

Frederic Harrison, one of the circle of Positivists (so- called because they followed the Positivism Auguste Comte) who sympathized with trade movement, the union writing to his friend Professor E. S. Beesly, spoke highly of Mundella's evidence before the Royal Commission, on which Harrison sat as a nominee of the Junta. 'Mundella's evidence is first- rate: He is a thorough trump —a regular unionist by nature, who, like Pisistratus or some- "has taken the dentos one, into partnership" and made a joint union of masters and men which at any rate keeps quite within the field and bullies outside employers savagely.

• . . He will turn Roebuck out for Sheffield, who is now That is Apple- very uneasy. garth's doing.' This was a reference to the work of Applegarth-perhaps the most venal and subservient of trade union leaders - in securing the support of the Sheffield workers for Mun- della's nomination and elec- tion. He was duly rewarded by his appointment to the Royal Commission on Contagious (venereal) Diseases in 1871, the first unionist ever to be elected on to such a body.

His nomination was largely the work of Mundella who promised to assist him in securing a government post after he was forced to resign as secretary of the Wood- workers. Mundella, Morley and others were regular visitors and patform speakers at the TUC Congresses in the 1870s.

'The Trade Union Congress falls very heavily upon me', wrote Mundella to a Sheffield newspaper owner at the begin- ning of 1872, 'but I am doing my duty and marvellously good is the apparent result. Much more forebearance and mode- ration characterized all their proceedings. . . . I wish you could have been at the break- fast this morning, given by Morley, and the myself borough members. The kindly tone which prevailed at the gathering was excellent. It is very pleasant to have such evidence of the usefulness of one's labours.' It is better', explained Morley to his fellow employers, 'that large employers of labour should be willing to hear all that can be said by the advocates of the working class, rather than from over-sensitiveness as to their reputation, or indiffer- ence as to the condition of the fear : people, or even of "unconscious irony", shut themselves within their own circle.' This same apprehension— that the trade union move- ment, if left alone and iso- lated, even under its collabora- tionist leaders, might be dangerous — was a common theme in the speeches and statements of the progressive' employers such as Morley.

I think it highly desirable' declared Mundella on the eve of the 1874 TUC Congress, 'that the members of the Con- ference should not be left in a state of isolation. Liberal and sensible employers should

WORKERS PRESS

Rejoicinge for the Pessing of the Reform Bill.

A Broadsheet c manifest their sympathy with this labour parliament in all efforts of a : reasonable and laudable character tending to improve their class. I am afraid the Sheffield middle class are very antagonistic towards them and will resent my apperance amongst them.'

Upon taking office as Presi- dent of the Board of Trade in the Gladstone Administration of 1886, Mundella appointed John Burnett, Secretary of the ASE, to the post of Labour correspondent in the Bureau of Statistics. Such developments, declared the 1886 TỤC President, 'are significant signs of the times, and reflect great credit upon ministers who brought them about. But we must not stop here. They should not be regarded as concessions, . but as a recognition of the just right of workers to a share in the government of the country.

Personally 1 shall not be satis- field until we have representa- tives of unionism within the charmed circle of the Cabinet'.

So by the 1880s, a definite pattern ot close collaboration had developed between a lead- ing group of trade unionists, centred on the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC and an influential body of employers and spokesmen in the Liberal Party. Little wonder that James Fitzpatrick, in his Presidential Address to the 1875 TUC, could declare that this body 'was now one'of the institu- tions of the country. and the great power it possessed and the immense constituency it represented, caused its delib- erations to be watched keenly by all classes in this country, from the highest officials in the to land the most humble toilers of the soil'. As one of the historians of the TUC (Professor B. C.

Roberts) has remarked: 'By bringig the trade unions "within the pale of the con- stitution", the danger of their adopting revolutionary ideas was practically eliminated. The role of the Parliamentary Committee was of consider- able significance, for through it the attention of the organ- ized workers was focused on reform through parliament."

The important point is that, in Britain, the emergence of a labour full-time bureaucracy with policies of class compro- mise and having close rela- tions both with the employers and parliamentary life was advanced before considerably the imperialist epoch. this lay one In of the 'unique' features of the British labour movement. But the limits of this development must also be appreciated. While it may be that all some degree, workers, some benefits from enjoyed Britain's dominant world eco- position after 1850, nomic these benefits were very unevenly distributed. During the period we have discussed, we must stress, the of workers great mass remained outside the labour movement'.

MONOPOLY

It was the sharp crisis which the development of imperialism brought with the challenge to this monopoly to position, which end was this situation, and end it in a comparatively short period at the end of the 1880s and early 18905.. It was this period which was to se not only the begin- ning of the processes-techni- cal changes, shifts in the pat- tern of world trade, etc.— which were to undermine the position of some sections of the labour aristocracy. It was also to see the entry of the unskilled and hitherto unorganized sections into the a section labour movement, which was to be at the back- bone of the fight for an inde- pendent political expression for the working class in the shape of the Labour Party, established in 1900.

SPEED THE

The Country as it will be dixtrachised Broadsheet celebrating the passing of the 1867 Reform Bill.

• JOHN STUART

MILL, the father of Enalish Liberalism. TV

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ANGLIA: 3.10-4.10 International show 4.30 Anglia newsroom. 4.40 Jumping. The enchanted house. 4.55 London. 6.00 6.35 Crossroads. About Anglia. 7.00 "Watusi' with George Montgomery, Taina Elg and David Fa, rar vOun seeks to retrace his father's trek man to the mines of King Solomon. 8.25 London. 11.15 All our yesterdays. 11.42 Reflection. MIDLANDS: 4.00 Women today.

4.10 ten boysaces 154 4.40 Origami. 4.50 Flax- ton boys. London. 6.00 ATV today. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Star western movie: The Burning Hills' with Natalie Wood and Tab Hunter. A man's life is endangered when he sets to seek out his brother's murderer. 8.25 London. 11.15 Douglas Fairbanks presents followed by weather.

HARLECH:

3.10-4.10 International showjumping. 4.25 Women today. 4.40 Diane's magic theatre. 4.55 London. 6.01 Report. 6.10 Mickey. 6.35 Cross- roads. 7.00 Bonanza. 8.00 Mr and Mrs. 8.30 London. 11.10 Interview. 11.40 Weather. HTV West colour channel 6l as above except: 4.23-4.25 Scene west. 6.01-6.35, Scene west. HTV Wales colour channel 41 as above except: 10.30 Shows Promise-Should Go Far.

11.20 y dydd. 11.45 Weather.

HTV Cymru/Wales black and white services as above except: 6.01 Y dydd. 6.30-6.35 Report Wales. 10.30 Shows Promise-Should Go Far. 11.20 The Baron. 12.15 Weather.

ULSTER: 4.30

Romper 4.50 room. headlines. Ulster news 4.55 London. 6.00 Ulster news. 6.05 Mona McCluskey.

6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Midweek movie: Sudan' Anthony *East of the with Quayle and Sylvia Sims. British adven- ture story set in Africa. 8.30 London.

11.15 Parkin's patch. YORKSHIRE: 3.10 International show jumping. 4.10 Tingha and Tucker club 4.25 Matinee. 4.55 L6.30 Beverly 6.00 Calendar and weather. 6.30 7.00 'Cast A Long Shadow' hillbillies. with Audie Murphy, Terry Moore.

A man plagued by his illegitimacy, drifts around the west. 8.30 London. 11.10 All our yesterdays. 11.40 Weather.

BORDER: 4.10 Border news headlines.

4.12 High livin Floris. 4.40 Origami. 4.50 Adventures of 5.15 London. 6.00 Border news and lookaround. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Tuesday western: River' with Rory Calhoun, "Powder Corrine Clavert and Cameron Mitchell.

volunteers for the job of A gunman Powder River marshall to avenge his 8.25 London. 11.15 partner's death. order news summary and weather.

SCOTTISH: 4.20 Scotland early.

4.30 London. 6.00 Scotland now. 6.30 High 7.00 Star movie: living. Weory Calhoun, River' "Powder with Rory Corrine Clavert and Cameron Mitchell hers. 9.00 London. 11.15 8.25 His and Late call. 4.55

GRAMPIAN: 4.25

High living. and London. 6.00 Grampian news 6.15 Music of the High- Tanders. 6.35 Crossroads. 6.55 Comedy landers. "Casanova's Night'. movie: His and hers. 9.00 London.

Tuesday, June 23, 1970 KELPRA PRINTS. Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery near Waterloo Station.

June 17 to July 7 He off abstract forms THE LAST exhibition of plays against photographs, flat surfaces this kind in London, the illusion of depth, black and white against colour.

which gave an idea of Each element employed in ploted can- with where art has been going is sciousness of its history.

in the 1960s, was the one Joe Tilson seems to have moved towards Kitaj, towards the called Pop Art, last year.

left, in his most recent works.

His picture Jan Palach: suicide At that time I felt that, picture Che Guevara, and Chi although some great works Minh idealize the people in- were on show, such as Rosen- volved. quist's and Rauschenburg's work, two American

ART FOR ART'S SAKE

"pop' artists, the whole thing was deathly cold, and miles away Although he does not be- yond Kitaj, he has made a break from any contact with real with his art for art's sake, past life today. Transparancy Clip-o-Matic Lips', the realistic red lips enormous It seemed that they were look- and white teeth. ing back to the 1950s of Marilyn The main driving force behind Monroe and back further to the Pop Art is the desire to integrate beat and rocker generation, but with a popular culture, Come they had nothing to say about bring together art and the mes- today. sage. The early pop art drew on advertisements and comic strips The collection of Kelpra prints but it became an object for rich has some tremendous works in patron's collections. those of Kitaj, it, in particular This exhibition shows artists which stand head and shoulders breaking from the formal the gim- rest; but are them- micky nature of the early pop art.

selves based on the whole of a Where will they go next? "school' artists working closely highly-skilled This must depend on a change with technica in their relation to the working assistants. class, that they begin to see them- new kind of silk-screening, selves not just as observers, but which makes use of photo- as themselves taking part in the sensitized gelatine or the road for er film, social transformations enormous has opened a com- that are being posed through the plex and rich new form of art.

development of the orisis today.

Paolozzi was the first to make these of screen prints, in 1962, but he repeats the same themes over and over again — that is making the machine into an object of and aesthetic play interest, a theme begun by the Dada artists in 1917. But this is all Paolozzi has to with Baroque an added Saly stuffiness derived the from in- volutions of a played-out idea. By 1964, Paolozzi was joined by nearly all the best artists in making these silk screens.

DIVISION

The exhibition shows a sharp division those between artists, such as Paolozzi, Viator Pasmore, Hepworth and others whose main interest is to express some ideas of the about aspect visual surroundings, and, on the other side, there are those like Sidney Nolan, Kitaj, Tilson and Hock- ney, and Hamilton, who immerse themselves in a tradition.

This involves nostalgia in the that sense certain Ned Kelly, and characters, such Ned as symbolic significance. The advance they great are making, is that their pictures mean a great deal in terms of because our own experience, Know what they are talking about. Kitaj draws upon the tradition of the 1920s, both for his subject matter and for his style.

He is concerned with the rise and the of fascism revolutionary struggles of the 1920s, and 1930s right up to roblems of today lach of his warks is differen and expresses new ideas. He combines an extraordinary freshness and variety of colour with hundred textures pro- duced Breeds, gluing on wallpaper, paint blowing phato- always crayon under the liscipline of the silk screen and the uniform picture plane.

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Nixon blasting artifcial harbours for speedily

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is not tha mact the eth Parker otAldermaston. n common the chin attribute canitalict wasougg mneys were Doliticians their sea-lever Canai shichilly int relation months because of queston samcuty the system they love. peerare is no mol ase . Crisis mistorical If sufficient safety precautions What remains is the part most such a could be imposed, pro private industry 01l an economicalle posits berel' Such projects R. have been plannes Nixon's latest speech on Ameri- can television was no exception many, Americans' others. lated means which I think How many more 'new develon problems ments' to come? take shoulders. 'The American He went economy is the strongest in the world' (It must be bad!).

'We must deal with the prob nation in transition ems nf a trom a wartime economy peacetime _economy. (he "DrO- gressive voucn.)

KOH THE OURSTIONS '

'This is a historic leader reordering of our at least three occasions to clarify priorities' (The nationa patriotic' touch.) pre-election news stop err The costs in defence spendin mean a where. practicable private defence production to the from kind Towards the been ingine ring, Engineering A nice this— + means shifted ence the streets

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hones While ' And so on. adapts. ey the eage is at all to financial harvest exactly nese, the technique is not Workers an Maske to rese Heath When the US space programme claim, merely nited States Information Servie slashed with a guarded rinhons state. Petion hate is party Intro- harder te commante. ements of com Lowered Space Agency Budget industries and a reference to the Geared to the Huture an elemen: party's manifesto. of truth in that, I suppose.

Conservative es of o he situation, hit morrow yords the following serious. Better ness be that the programme was to i sit the the involvemerot 'broad and and nationalized industries. the set inductive. examne in the consist of a large orbiting ducthin hetter investment more use effective Tory strongly tipped fo What now attactuasha hars?

Wedgwood Ploughommissions - has- beetry of Te char Ministry Atomic more farrishi nuclear explosives had effec- recent has no come on and Office: tively been wound 1m gentleman, workers have nothine exiled to prisons in the Lipari TRT PRAR ENTERDRICR Go with the production of things moving again'. Throughout ren puene medrade hundreds dings, warning goods, physical labourers are the worshipped ruling paying'. classes. Mussolini. Italy possesses a leader "Tha workarel attitude who deteriorated because he has bee inspires hero-worship followers e eager to tomator hi enthusiasm If instead of leaving the lass did not come up to expec office non-union four-page of demagogues its economic Free Enterprise tations. ideas under Heath it The bit Perhaps re want Paul PErson iting hoe was Die Tiout hat surplus: the * as in fat to con the con the Hailes s in with prices and with depressed state of incastries Yes, those were the days Mussolini accused of not, for Dr Einzig is used to spoiling' workers anly work- Britain leading once more in race. "an his ushed all political Oppositio quite Socialists and communists were cuch beaten up and murdered. Aims working caca nrinted

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More Doxford lay-otis at Corby fitters' strike won't continuing strike coastion workers 1s laid o needs support come to unions i le discused the last pound ot THE 230 FITTERS on strike at the three Wear- Stalin... na strike leaders managemen side shipyards of Doxford and Sunderland voted it Denses Should be that a s at a mass meeting during the weekend to reject unt nat on sisting productivity con- pay and productivity proposals negotiated be ween management and their union last week THE KREMLIN campaign to rehabilitate' weekend. Stain took a new turn over the Aar district secretary

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Soldiers were seen guarding a fence round Stalin's Mr Henry Wilkinson said grave next to the Kremlin wall. A policeman told Spanish

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for mentin ater tne meene wal ue salary reporters "They are putting up a granite monument 14-week-ole strike would building to Stalin'. phe BBC ester an enced bye continue. + -has been Stalin's mansolen

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he companv is attemot- workers strike Rational Uatin and Pralist ing to push through a deal admissi Herr monocated and the wage whico incudes ine acceDL- in Seek, in S the sand

IWENTY - FIVE.

Measured-Day ance increase cultura nd inst refused to Kamishches removat work. vy. interchange Khr launching, ability, and nexiollty Poses It takes effect from July 1.

t fatimidation mon has moved on to a modulv or labour. chievin from spread rapidly sole dissident intellec. and by Friday, involved three-

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after duced abour force executive of the workers in st The BETUPTU said at that

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Police intervened agaiestre no notic dir Proposals Seville arresting ome rai During last week's five-day

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une. of the manage- Near strators were injured. entererent eca retur were rejected by tee men befo W Mid- work and sW, Funeral of in save dangers still confront " with *her i Sinking ahis Near normal. Max. month in the tyre de and Versat 20C (aP) whole s willing to98 per cel minores within heationat Sukarno- per of what they want The unior has chieve a high‹ Cambodia mat method Indonesian rain

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Confed- putes lined the impossibility of a eration British bernan nationa captancin class Industry MaIn hence imperialism and the colonial masses. Pirate nrace their Fank remains as exposed mom are trial of sud left-win workers press witness th * the Sukarno road " bloody stru internal gon and the White House. decisive defeat for imperial On eve of L.P.. conference worker o uraird or js mohere is ray, an that in SE Asia over the nex Fugie for Marxism indonesian Communist idealism and from Moscow and Peking or Follow later in the wesk.

o and his struck back the Prepare to fight eath's Minister of emplo only by Hitlers uctivitv Kobe Carr. TUC'S June iwo days govt OR•

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Name bus dozen Tory govern- Address As far bakes warmed tha trade union leaders ition to the Tories ans mmittee

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chairman ticularly that Unions Alliance.

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plant has been CAV store quest what ran Union member Noa Sexacoys she sub- pay fight posals " Agreement

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eleated belol signed

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We Madrid, Monday- signed an brumthe assembly lines. France tre the countris unty, prory into the reports taur Late and the young Soat. Santa Fore Minste 30 because of a treat ist tore fire be see ontos: or More timort to the work Tuesday, June 23, 1970 stalin's grave alter he was removed trom tne benn mausoleul.

the his bust is currently being Umon nas also been openiy Dulos a monument Co Moscow Sheists like other anti- man who pioneerea taese aisDiayed Kosterin and techniques counter. Acaceny.) Grigorenko. and repression Deme revved and honoured at home while persecutions, Another of the the bureaucracy extends stronger aspect JIvy calcull Kremlin hand of friendship abroad to deeper dilu Cuts toortu- recent release yout anu workuk class Spanish fascists, realizes of 1 ne bureaucrac sel that 1970 colonialists the speeches by records Lenal.

WILL

suest all his pro-US regime in Cambodia.

year 'Great Purge'. wife and Not tne Its return to Stalin has Stain. 1 neir strategy Is counter- series records to reproduce statin's Timot revolution all along use mme. manoeuvres But this time, with revo- trials* stage lutionary It is noshow since 1956 20th the af the CPSU. and international massive Congress working class can win. (As a final artistic touch,

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supremacist re- actions in Africa to the Tory victory have been running true to form. While the difference cannot sec any Tory Labour

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anu the Dallarneul. Smith and vorster regimes

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ure heir trenes on tre Lon don Stock Exchange - cer- tainly can. there The same applies with equal that Cast Was Johannesburg. com- force to the Smith regime in 'general Kadio Loat une Tories had won on June 18.

mented on Friday: Salisbury The Home the e House, ser- Mr neath nas giver i Nonety at Han, Home in the White the east that he will reverse and alish or he East of Suez withdrawal enemies Britain will also under the Tory colonial "The election result become neat partner most Imoortant Republic Rhodesia since UDI.' Allica working clas It called for a re-opening ol fending the at therefore talks with Britain. must very beginning of its counter- The President ot une The broadcast then of the Rhodesian Tobacco Associa- attack acanst uner orles lial ceeded to give details the added that no ald-military or economic Tory 'better tomorrow in the --must ind its way to tuese racialist regimes. county or apartneld. this Bral sessits This is the way to hit back April will bedlars of racist Geoffrey Rippon, teature within robably Minister of Defence, told as become Finally, a S African broad- class. Club dinner in Lon Alrican that con conservanve government wolle nor ony supply arms to S Africa and abide by the letter as well as spirit of the Simonstown but would build Nato and the tree Condies, Behind the cricket the Brish

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Jean- right headline SWaDS the a love for Servan-Schreiber horses at Nancy'. made Tories by-election the that But this is only a small part S African allies Nancy, National Assembly tion defeat for Labour would of the marks a story. servan ourterbel in southern Lorraine, his up open up a new era or conad- votes with steD Iorward oration netween and cash in French politics.

nromises to induce inausuall- ruling class and the Vorster ists to develop Lorraine, where white supremacists. 44 has been high Servan-Schreiber took the first-roun by playing or • foolish of the gor tactics • with Gaullist vole. sendinshe North the candidate, Souchal, ana is per cent to molor way. Antoine, the of the area. Michel munist. As a vehicle for his political the All three will stand the ir run-oft. ground ine tory to reap a €1,000 million Servan-Schreiber which he is now head. bonanza boange on Tune 19.

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week he will attemot to holm is the ent over a new parliamentary group. during Ther is clearer index to He nas said that up to 8( mix- class of the elec. sitting deputies may be pre- contes Labour- ture of crusading for 'reforms' pared to join him. promises tavours trom unprecedented wave of selling ems more-business Cares Headline chauvinistic ana anu-Amen- veculaliul and Cams COn Damn - wagon rolls can easily prove a esterdav's commus certain y no victorous once Paptained pee result with the Party 'Humanite for extreme political the basıs Can De against Lories uness all Ine most important lessons of Labour- misleadership ite over The last six years is learnt by most consçious sections Young Socialists and important lesson all is that only the revolu Socialist Labour League of tionary expropriation socialist CaDilal

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unaer workers control on tae nasis centralized can put an end to tine massive There is economic crisis.

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other way. Only the socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists and will provide ecessa There Situated in pleasant change. is no other call y surroundings on the yal Ly Britain faces Essex coast. its createst chaucase the lectures prospects lor die tremely i DuT philosophy, history other necessity for and theoretical nin- subjects which have featured very and im- In workers rress call on all workers and If you are interested and would subscribe the the alicia join the Social- complete form case below: Socialists, build une alternative to Wilson and Fot i Complete form and send to: with the Tory Summer Camp, 186a Clapham High St, SW4.

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ab- League and the Workers Name Press ! Address June 21, 1970.